10/04/2014

VDC Research congratulates STMicroelectronics for being selected as the winner of our embedded hardware ‘Best of Show’ award at ARM TechCon 2014!

STMicroelectronics announced the STM32 F7 line of microcontrollers based on the new ARM Cortex-M7 architecture last week, and it had a functioning unit at its booth running various benchmarks side-by-side with an STM32 processor based on the Cortex-M4. The company compared the processing time needed to process 3 different types of data in separate tests based on ray tracing, fractal imaging, and 3D-vectorial computation. The Cortex-M7 device delivered almost twice the performance and digital signal processing of its predecessor. The STM32 F7 MCU series operates at frequencies up to 200 MHz using the core’s 6-stage superscalar pipeline to produce up to 1000 CoreMarks.

The new 32-bit Cortex-M7 processor architecture fills the midpoint between ARM’s current Cortex-M4 and low-end Cortex-A IP. It is targeted towards high-end embedded and IoT applications such as motor control, industrial automation, image processing, connected car, smart home, wearables, and more. Other leading ARM partners for the Cortex-M7 processor include Atmel and Freescale.

Once more, congratulations to STMicroelectronics!

We have another blog available from our time at ARM TechCon 2014 and JavaOne highlighting notable embedded security demonstrations and solutions.

For more information on our recently published Embedded Processors report, which analyzes the market for commercially available CPUs, GPUs, MCUs, and SoCs and their role in powering future embedded systems, click here.